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#551 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 215 weeks ago
mitchejw wrote:Randall Flagg wrote:9 months tomorrow for me. Can’t recommend it enough. Television network news has become nothing but outrage generators. Both sides telling you how bad it is and why you should be angry. An information service that profits off how angry it makes you isn’t healthy for any nation.
You’ll be sure to cite the law sources in a long winded bullshit argument shortly won’t you?
Dude, politically you and I reasonably align. It is obvious that I am far far away from Flagg on a lot of shit. So in your long arguments I often agree with where you're coming from.
But why you got to jump in on him like that with these potshots and stir the pot like this? It's petty as fuck. Grow up and stop trying to derail these threads with your bullshit.
Where were you a page or two ago when he shit all over me?
#552 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 215 weeks ago
James wrote:I may have to enter one of my periods where I don't check any news. It's raising my blood pressure.
9 months tomorrow for me. Can’t recommend it enough. Television network news has become nothing but outrage generators. Both sides telling you how bad it is and why you should be angry. An information service that profits off how angry it makes you isn’t healthy for any nation.
You’ll be sure to cite the law sources in a long winded bullshit argument shortly won’t you?
#553 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 216 weeks ago
Smoking Guns wrote:Biden’s numbers are tanking. Our country is not in a good state right now.
James made this comment too. Where are you guys seeing this? He’s holding steady around 50%. His high was 56%, and he’s declined 3% points each quarter. He’s still 10 points higher than Trump was at this point. A 6 point drop 6 months into his Presidency doesn’t meet my definition of tanking, but I’m interested to see why you and James feel he’s on a downward projectory.
I think you meant....'trajectory'
#554 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 216 weeks ago
Yea, Mitch. If by turn and pivot you mean cite and structure out arguments for my posts, you got me. You should try it for once.
Imagine using the same source to support a conflicting set of arguments.
#555 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 216 weeks ago
I can't wait for this bullshit about these fake police on capital hill to pass...fake police
#556 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 216 weeks ago
Here let me do it for you. The CDC is stupid and here’s all the evidence why. One year later the CDC proves everything I thought.
It’s the media that’s wrong
#557 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 216 weeks ago
James wrote:misterID wrote:People are looking back at progressive talking head tweets from last year and it's uniformly anti vax, and were predicting Trump's rush to get vaccines out was going to kill people. You can't make this up.
Yeah it's crazy.
Had Trump won the election, it would be the left bitching about vaccines and wanting everything wide open.
I'm also getting sick of the constant bitching about the right not getting the vaccine.
In most of these states, it's minorities that are refusing to get vaccinated. They don't bring this up because it goes against their narrative they've spent months crafting.
It's very telling how the talking point was "White Republicans are refusing to vaccinate" and when you look at the figures, it's clearly "Democratic" voters who are refusing the vaccine, but that's hidden from the discussion.
Google search 1 fitting the narrative
https://i.ibb.co/ZxxXfzz/White-Republicans.jpgGoogle search 2 changing the demographic
https://i.ibb.co/LYvGyy6/Black.jpgAnd here's the actual CDC numbers as of today:
https://i.ibb.co/q7tXqjw/Reality.jpg
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracke … emographichttps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/wh … t-liberal/
90% of Black Americans identify with the Democratic party. You can't find a more reliable and historical slant towards an American political party in any other demographic group.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_ … n_politics
69% of Latinos identify with the Democratic party.Interestingly, trying to get a hard answer on which way white voters go wasn't as easy as other demographics. Pew provided this:
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/ … ssay-0.png
and the NY Times election break down reports something very similar:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 … ident.htmlhttps://i.ibb.co/584PZ7B/Times.jpg
I have no interests in labeling groupthink to any demographic, but facts are facts.
Here is a video of Harris telling the world she wouldn't take a vaccine recommended by Trump in October 2020, during our 2nd waive, a month from the election. For the record, both Moderna and Pfizer are those very vaccines achieved under Warp Speed. I have no interest in attributing any of these vaccines to him, he simply nodded his head "yes" when asked if it could proceed.
That was our VP telling half the country that voted for her that she doesn't think a vaccine created and approved under Trump -which both Pfizer and Moderna are. should be taken if Trump is the one telling you to get it. And we have a media and mouth breathers going around blaming the Republican party and specifically white Republicans? This is a clear example of politicizing this entire thing. The current team can't baffle you with their brilliance. They can't even get an infrastructure bill through congress because they've paid too much lip service to the AOC and Twitter crowd. So they baffle you with bullshit, and making it racial is the only proven method the American left has of winning elections.
I forgot to add to the last post that I'd do RF's part....to turn, pivot and change the topic....
I remember a time when he was using CDC data to prove that Fauci and other medical professionals weren't to be trusted...
now he's simply using them to try to make me look stupid. Love that hindsight bias RF...never change....
These are truly MAGA moments....
#558 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 216 weeks ago
In case you guys forgot, Mitch is the guy who came here saying when he blew a tire and a stare trooper pulled over to help, he was worried the cop would shoot his infant son. After the cop changed his tire, Mitch literally said the police have never done anything for him. (Why a 30 year old man needed help changing a tire…)
Wow...you sure have a revisionist memory of all that. First, a tire didn't blow...but the sensor in the car was telling me that there was indeed something seriously wrong with the car. After pulling over, 5 minutes later a state highway rolls up (which I am grateful for). I inspected all 4 tires and found nothing wrong. I even took the air pressure and confirmed that there was no issue there.
I appreciate you're cute little shot at my manhood, though. Also, is it cool to take shots at the Dad of a mixed child who was worried about his future given the context of everything that happened last year? Maybe if you watched the George Floyd tape and actually had a son you might give shit about something other than your alpha male posturing.
If you’re expecting to engage with someone who has bothered to read anything other than the headlines of far left media outlets tailored to his algorithm, you’re only kidding yourself.
This guy said he didn’t know if he could protect his family if they were being murdered, as shooting someone attacking his wife gives him any pause.
Point being you’re not engaging with someone capable of expressing an opinion that remotely resonates with your average Joe.
Guys who think cops will shoot their infant or hesitate to protect their family don’t have the mental makeup that is relatable to anyone but far left Twitter where white men flog themselves for shit their ancestors did 300 years ago.
If you think you're the average Joe...you're sadly mistaken. If you think it makes you a man because you have a dozen guns, you are sadly mistaken. Aren't you also the guy who said George Floyd deserved what he got until you saw the tape? Aren't you also the guy that said Breonna Taylor deserved what she got because she was dating a drug dealer?
The hubris of the alpha is why I will never, ever be a follower. It is never the alpha male that is wrong. It is weak, white liberals who are cuck boys right? We have doubled so far down on all these stupid ass, waste of money drug enforcement policies that it is now justifiable to kill anyone suspected to be on drugs, near drugs or in the near physical proximate location of drugs.
Someone who tells us we deserve Covid for voting for Trump isn’t someone you’re going to have any meaningful discussion with.
We do deserve what we get for putting that man in power. All that matters to that man is money, his fame and his barnum and bailey style circus he brings with him everywhere he goes. Everything that man touches eventually turns to shit. Did he get the economy churning by using a cute combination of massive deficit spending and lowering taxes for the rich and corporations...you bet. How long did you think that was going to last? Pandemic or not.
#559 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 216 weeks ago
misterID wrote:mitchejw wrote:Why would this be the stake in the heart? Your boy Desantis is overseeing a shit storm in Florida and everyone is anointing him the new king of the Republican party.
People are looking back at progressive talking head tweets from last year and it's uniformly anti vax, and were predicting Trump's rush to get vaccines out was going to kill people. You can't make this up.
Yeah it's crazy.
Had Trump won the election, it would be the left bitching about vaccines and wanting everything wide open.
I'm also getting sick of the constant bitching about the right not getting the vaccine.
In most of these states, it's minorities that are refusing to get vaccinated. They don't bring this up because it goes against their narrative they've spent months crafting.
The stat I keep seeing is about 20% of Republicans refuse to get the shot while about 6% of Democrats refuse...nationally. It's not that hard to believe is it?
#560 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 216 weeks ago
See.... this is exactly what I'm talking about.
You're ignoring the Covid sins of Cuomo....who Dems were anointing as the new King by the way....yet attacking Desantis.
For starters.... Cuomo's situation is worse. He was doing this shit while writing and releasing a book about how amazing he was during the crisis....and the media lapped it up.
The excuse now is, "Cuomo had no easy decisions".
Why isn't that excuse used for Desantis or someone else? Is it over partisan hackery or because Cuomo is only responsible for killing old people?
Pick one.
I have from the beginning of all this have tried to give governors and states with huge cities and huge population centers the benefit of the doubt. That includes DeSantis. My problem with him and with most Republican governors is that they straddled this stupid fence of.....'we know nothing' or 'there's no use in trying anything' or criticizing vaccines while quietly implementing the policies and getting the vaccines. I've always been interested in Ohio's Republican govenrors of late...DeWine probably took the hardest stance on the pandemic and even he had to water things down and placate to a moronic base of Trump sycophants. I've said it before and I'll say it again...if Kasich had received the nomination he likely would have had a serious shot at my vote.
The Republican governors of places like South Dakota or Idaho, who gave no fucks about the situation, don't get a pass.
Back to the original point....it seems like you're more than willing to criticize Cuomo but not nearly as much DeSantis. Riddle me that. Cuomo is dead in the water nationally. DeSantis is not.
I see this a lot on Reddit, the old....
All the liberals understand it and it's a good thing. It's everyone else that's too stupid to comprehend it.
They're gonna have to issue new talking points because this no longer works anymore. It became a losing issue for Dems the moment little kids and a handful of teachers risked being canceled by admitting this has infiltrated the elementary level.
That's no what I'm saying...I'm saying there is a significant group of voters in our population who refuse to even consider it or base their understanding on a few Tucker Carlson talking points and outright reject it.
The gender quackery is getting bad too....
Some of these schools are now telling kids to keep secrets from their parents.
Remember when the world was normal and you were supposed to tell your parents everything? That was wrong....now secrets are good.
People talk about the right focusing too much on the culture wars yet will give a pass to shit like this.
This has to be the extreme minority of situations...what school would want to take on that liability?
Biden poll numbers.....
So you're telling me low poll numbers are a good thing now? You do remember that Trump lost with those numbers.
Trump's highest polling numbers came in the first months of his term. He never got there again. If he had, he'd still be presdient.
